Bye Bye Tate

O.K SO THIS IS WHAT THE POST WAS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE!!!!!!! I wasn't finished and accidentally published it instead of saved as a draft hopefully it looks a little better!! And I might do spell check too!

Goodbye Tate!! I know he will be a great missionary and I am soooo excited for him. I will miss him ton's,but know it is for the best!! Love ya tons little brother!! o.k. so he pulls that face a lot!!

Tate is gone to the Mtc now!! I can finally have an extra minute to update. Since his call we have all been very busy trying to fit in a bunch of fun stuff before he left. I guess I'll start with when he left and work backwards. HE went to the MTC on Wednesday May 14. He was really nervous and it was really hard saying good buy to him. I know he will be really great and this is what he is supposed to be doing, but we will miss him. He came over that morning before Ryleigh Jo went to school to say goodbye to the girls. This was really hard for him, because he is really close to them and will miss them a lot, they will also change a lot in 2 years. Ryleigh Jo and Shandee cried and Kara was sad too.

Who looks more sad Rylegh Jo or Tate?

Ryleigh Jo did say that she wasn't going

to get baptized until Tate gets back, but

he said she should and sent pictures and

maybe he can baptize a little girl like her

in California!

Shandee cried when she was going to bed

and said I don't know who I'll watch (t.v.)

with now!! She will miss him, but I'm not

sure she knows how long 2 years is for sure!! Kara is not sure what's going on

yet either!! Now when we say

where's Tate she says "Tete bye bye"

He was set apart as a missionary on Tuesday night. The blessing was really good. It promised him a lot of really good things. After the blessing we went to my mom's house for cake and ice cream (Some one's birthday I guess)
There's that face again!
His farewell was on Sunday the 11th. It was also Mother's day. His talk was really good. He is quite a silly boy and he sure had people laughing, but he also did really good, and I know I felt the spirit. He decided to try to do his testimony in Spanish, because most people do it when they come back , so he thought he would try it before. It was good.
I forgot to take pictures on this day Opps!!
He went to the temple on April 19th! He was very excited to be able to go. It was really a great experience. He asked me to be in the prayer circle with him, because he gets to have his big brother's do stuff for him, like blessings and Archie baptized him, so he thought it would be good to have his big sister do that with him. I was glad, it was great and I really felt the spirit and I really felt like Brandee was there to be with Tate on his special day!!

This is everyone who went to the temple,

and those that came over when he came

out! Then we went to eat.

We had a cinco de Mayo party for him. It was really fun. We invited all the cousins and had some really good Mexican food. We also tied a quilt that he had to have for his mission. Everyone that was there tied at least one knot in his quilt. Then we had a pinata and they played basketball. I think it was really fun to be able to spend time together as a family.

One thing he wanted to do before he left was go on a family vacation, so we all went to St. George for a few days. (Archie and Kresta didn't and Gary because he had to work) It was a lot of fun. We just hung out and played together as a family. On the way down we stopped at the Manti Temple. Tate went to snow college and he used to go to the temple just to walk around the grounds, so he was really excited to be able to go inside. It is really beautiful and the wood work is awesome. When we got to St. George we just did fun stuff. They went golfing a few times and we went mini golfing and swimming a lot at our hotel pool. We also went out to some really great restaurants. We played at the park. I went shopping. We also went to the St. George temple. Then on the way home we stopped at the red cliffs for a picnic and some hiking. It was so much fun to be with the fam!!

Dead bodies in the pool!! We always

do that whenever we get in a pool.

We have done it since we were

young, dumb hu?

This is us golfing. I kicked everyone's butts.

My dad said I cheated, but they were all

just mad they got beat by a girl!!Not much more has been going on. We had a few busy weeks and now school will be out in 9 days and I get the summer off to spend time with the kids and just have lots of fun!!!! Sorry this post is sooo much reading, but I just had a lot so say!!! Thanks for reading!!!!with my girls and have lots of fun!!